A CO Kildare hotel cleaner has claimed in the High Court she was defamed by the owner of the Caragh Hotel, Naas.
In an affidavit read to the court by her counsel, Mr Colm Smyth, Ms Christina Hill, Naas, said she suffered injuries in an accident in the hotel in January 1993 and engaged solicitors to write to the owner, Clanton Investments Ltd.
Ms Hill said the defendants denied she was employed by them but understood her to have taken to wearing in taxis a surgical collar which she put on after leaving each place of employment.
The defendants' letter, she claimed, said she had tried this type of thing before with some measure of success.
Ms Hill said the letter had caused her distress, anxiety and severe upset.
She had learned the hotel was to be auctioned tomorrow and feared the proceeds would be dissipated, leaving no assets against which she could execute an award for damages.
Mr Justice Shanley granted Ms Hill leave to inform the defendants of her intention to seek an order on June 5th restraining them from disposing of the proceeds of sale below £30,000.